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# spectre

noun (US spelling specter; plural spectres)

«spectre» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A spectre is a ghost, or a frightening image of a ghost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#m1)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales and ghost stories, a spectre is the ghost of a dead person, often one that returns to speak to a living person

### Examples

- It was the spectre of her child. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x1)
- The spectre grinned at me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x2)
- The spectre told me where the treasure lay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «spectre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«spectre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/spectre.html) on Mova free.